The Future in the Twelve

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
Mark J. Boda
Keyword(s):  
Human Response ◽  
The Future ◽  
Book Of The Twelve ◽  
Day Of Yahweh ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay discusses the topic of the future within the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. It begins with a review of recent streams of research on the future within the Twelve (messianism, Zion/Jerusalem/nations, Day of Yahweh, apocalyptic) and then outlines the major thematic contours of this topic within this prophetic corpus (conditions of the future, human response, prophetic future, and certainty). The essay concludes by focusing on two key passages (Mic 4–5 and Hag 2:10–23), which show the intersection of past, present, and future within prophecy, marking the prophetic as key to the transformation of the lives of the audience.

Zephaniah

2021 ◽  
pp. 498-510
Author(s):  
Cat Quine
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Other ◽  
Book Of The Twelve ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Intertextual Connections ◽  
Day Of Yahweh ◽  
The City ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay discusses the key topics for the study of the book of Zephaniah, including structure, authorship, date, central themes, Zephaniah’s relationship with the Book of the Twelve, and the Hebrew Bible. The themes explored include the Day of Yahweh, illicit cult practice, the contrast between corrupt elite classes and a humble remnant, the city, redemption, and restoration. Many of these themes are found in the other Minor Prophets, but they find unique expression in Zephaniah, carefully crafted to convey the prophet’s message. The essay ends with a reflection on how to read Zephaniah—how to make sense of the individuality of the book among the plurality of intertextual connections found within it.

The Minor Prophets’ Relation to the Torah and Former Prophets

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-199
Author(s):  
Rannfrid I. Thelle
Keyword(s):  
Former Prophets ◽  
Book Of The Twelve ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay tracks references to Israel’s past in the Minor Prophets as one avenue into exploring their connections to the Torah and Former Prophets, while also observing ways in which shared or similar traditions shape prophetic rhetoric. Key themes emerge, such as God’s character, apostasy and idolatry, covenant and judgment, and critique of power and leadership. Specific remarks, particularly in the last of the Twelve, indicate complex and innovative processes of the reinterpretation of Torah and prophecy. These derive canonical meaning when the Book of the Twelve is read in relation to the Torah and Former Prophets as authoritative collections.

The Minor Prophets and the Book of the Twelve in Late Eighteenth-Century through Early Twenty-First-Century Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 266-278
Author(s):  
Marvin A. Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Theodore Of Mopsuestia ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Book Of The Twelve ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay traces and analyzes modern-critical scholarship on the Minor Prophets or Book of the Twelve Prophets from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first century. It differentiates between the Christian practice from the time of Jerome and Theodore of Mopsuestia that treated the Twelve as twelve individual Minor Prophets that were collected together and the Jewish practice of reading the Twelve as the Book of the Twelve Prophets. Early treatment of the Minor Prophets focuses especially on the early work of J. G. Eichhorn (1780–1783), W. M. L. de Wette (1817), F. Hitzig (1838), H. Ewald (1840–1841), and B. Duhm (1875, 1922). More modern treatment of the Book of the Twelve Prophets focuses especially on the work of K. Budde (1922), R. E. Wolfe (1935), D. Schneider (1979), O. H. Steck (1991, 1999), James D. Nogalski (1993, 2011), Jakob Wöhrle (2006, 2008), and the author (Sweeney 2000).

scholarly journals ARRISCANDO A PALAVRA: VIEIRA, DOS SERMÕES À HISTÓRIA DO FUTURO

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (130) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Maria A. R. Abrão
Keyword(s):  
Human Response ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
God's Word ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

Arriscar a palavra no púlpito, na própria vida, na obra de uma vida. Em Vieira, dos Sermões à História do Futuro, a palavra faz um caminho. Para além de artifícios da retórica, para além de conveniências político-religiosas, ele coloca as bases da ação como resposta à palavra de Deus e em fidelidade a ela adotando como paradigma a história de Israel. História reveladora da iniciativa de Deus, sempre primeira. Reveladora também dos caminhos e descaminhos da livre resposta humana, da responsabilidade histórica que tal resposta comporta. Ao propor uma leitura do modo de agir de Deus, da sua aliança com a humanidade, Vieira alinha-se perigosamente na fileira dos que incomodam. Lembra a impossibilidade de proteger-se sob o conceito de eleição. A purificação desse conceito, bem como o de ‘ser cristão’ é inadiável. No entanto, a postura de Vieira não é isenta de problemas teológicos. O risco de sua palavra, que abre a esse debate, indica igualmente ao homem os motivos para esperar, para crer na promessa, chave da leitura do futuro.ABSTRACT: Risking the word in the pulpit, in one’s life, in the work of an entire life. According to Vieira, from the Sermons to the History of the Future, the word makes a way for itself. Besides of the rhetoric artifices and the politico-religious conveniences, Vieira establishes the action bases as response to the God’s word, and in fidelity to the same by adopting as paradigm the History of Israel, a revealing, and always the first one, History of the God’s initiative. A History that also reveals the right paths and the wrong paths of the human response, of the historic responsibility that such a response holds. When Vieira proposes the reading of the way God works, of the alliance of God with the humankind, Vieira dangerously aligns himself with the row of those who make trouble. Vieira reminds the impossibility of sheltering oneself under the concept of election. The purification of this concept, as well as the concept of ‘being Christian’ is unpostponable. Nevertheless, the Vieira’s position is not free from theological issues. The risk of his word that opens this debate equally indicates to the man the reasons for hoping and believing in the promise, the key for reading the future.

One Book or Twelve Books?

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Anna Sieges
Keyword(s):  
Unique Material ◽  
Book Of The Twelve ◽  
Christian History ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay explains debates about whether the Minor Prophets are twelve separate books or a unified collection. Throughout much of Jewish and Christian history, the twelve “books” of the Minor Prophets have been studied as discrete entities. Some ancient traditions treat the Minor Prophets or the Book of the Twelve as one literary unit, causing modern scholars to consider their unity. In the 1990s, scholars began to notice editorial activity and larger themes in the Minor Prophets, suggesting that the writings within should be read, heard, and studied as one large book. There is still merit in studying each individual book because each book offers unique material. There is also merit in studying the Book of the Twelve as a unity because each of the books helps to interpret the others in the collection.

The Minor Prophets in the Judean Desert Manuscripts

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Mika S. Pajunen
Keyword(s):  
Future Studies ◽  
Textual History ◽  
Book Of The Twelve ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Minor Prophets

The Judean Desert manuscripts are the earliest extant witnesses for the prophetic compositions that are part of the Book of the Twelve. This essay offers an assessment of the original extent of these manuscripts in light of material aspects and scribal practices as well as a brief discussion of their importance for the textual history of the Minor Prophets. It is argued that some of the manuscripts contained only individual compositions, whereas others represent collections of different sizes. The manuscript witnesses and the use of these prophetic compositions in other writings further demonstrate that they were perceived both as individual compositions and as distinct collections. This conclusion has consequences for evaluating the textual history and textual affiliation of the individual books and the Book of the Twelve as a collection that should be taken into account in future studies.

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